rick
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Does anyone have any suggestions for saving my blacktail Aerial from an impacted gut situation?
She was acting oddly last night, going and standing in the corner of the run in the dark after initially being on the roost. I've brought her in, crop was full and watery last night and this morning and although it has become firmer (still soft and mobile) it is still full.
Just water from the rear.
No sour smells so far.
Feels too mobile to be in her crop so I've got a horrible feeling it may be further down.
There are a couple of things I think may have caused it:
I turned over the soil in the back of the run yesterday morning. There may have been a rotting large feather in there.
I have had some hessian cloth in there as a screen - she may have picked some string out of it.
There is straw in the nest boxes but I've never had any trouble before from straw.
Just hoping she will do an enormous messy poop tonight and be back to normal.
...Shes standing on the perch in the dark at the moment with her rear held very high.
She was acting oddly last night, going and standing in the corner of the run in the dark after initially being on the roost. I've brought her in, crop was full and watery last night and this morning and although it has become firmer (still soft and mobile) it is still full.
Just water from the rear.
No sour smells so far.
Feels too mobile to be in her crop so I've got a horrible feeling it may be further down.
There are a couple of things I think may have caused it:
I turned over the soil in the back of the run yesterday morning. There may have been a rotting large feather in there.
I have had some hessian cloth in there as a screen - she may have picked some string out of it.
There is straw in the nest boxes but I've never had any trouble before from straw.
Just hoping she will do an enormous messy poop tonight and be back to normal.
...Shes standing on the perch in the dark at the moment with her rear held very high.